The OpenSUSE team has released beta 9 of OpenSUSE 10.1. Again, no changelog, no release notes, nothing, so I cannot inform you about what is new, improved, or fixed. Download the CD set and see for yourself. Locations are listed in the announcement.

SuSE is IMO a great distro. The reason I ditched it for Kubuntu was slowness of both the system and of YaST, nad the worthless package manager(part of YaST). It seems that they've switched to a new package manager, and hopefully it'll be faster too. If my hopes are true, SuSE could take a fair share of the market. SuSE feels a lot more mature than Ubuntu in some regards(graphical configuration, ease of installing seperate packages, the installer).